Skip to main content

The 10 Coolest VW Products on Sale at Monterey

It is and will continue to be Car Week in Monterey, California. The event attracts more rich people than a shoefly pie attracts flies and more nice cars than some other folksy analogy. And fortunately for us, many of those are Volkswagens or just barely closely enough related to VW for us to feature them. Here are the ten best ones.

1970 Meyers Manx

manx

Dune buggies aren’t all that rare, but a real Meyers Manx is becoming a rarer sight. And seeing one in such fine fettle warms the cockles of our hearts. Just looking at this pristine Manx gives us fantasies of the endless summer, starting a beach party and kicking sand in the face of some neighborhood toughs before heading out to the pop shop. Offered without reserve, this one is expected to go for only $30,000-$40,000.

1970 Porsche 908/03

908

Designed for the Targa Florio and the Nurburgring 1,000 KM, the 908 won both events, launching Porsche onto a manufacturer’s title in 1970. This one, chassis 003, was used before races to figure out how best to setup the cars for races. Driven by factory drivers Jurgen Barth, Brian Redman, and Jo Siffert, this car has provenance coming out the ying yang. As such, it’s expected to take home a lofty $3,500,000 to $4,500,000.

1958 Volkswagen 11-Window Bus

11-window

It’s not always the more the better, as this 11-window Kombi proves. Twice bedoored, this is one of only a handful of walkthrough Kombis from 1958. With bucket seats, too, swing-open Safari front windows, and a steel roof rack, this green on green Kombi has more features than you could shake a stick at. And with a flawless restoration, it’s sure to take home the big bucks, that’s to say $90,000-$110,000.

1976 Lamborghini Countach LP 400 Periscopio

periscopio

The Periscopio is the OG Countach. Basically, the concept Countach made real, this only the 86th first-gen Countach ever made. What’s also interesting is that it was first bought in Canada by a paraplegic who installed hand controls. The next buyer kept it in a climate controlled garage and babied it, leaving it in great condition. It won second place at the 2013 Concours d’Elegance in the Lamborghini Class. It’s expected to sell for around $1,000,000.

1955 Volkswagen Beetle

beetle

Finished in satin black with red pin striping, this custom Beetle features a 1,641 cc engine topped with a Bocar carb, Bosch coil, and dual exhausts. Although it’s anything but original, the builder hasn’t gone overboard. With a Blaupunkt radio, a 4-speed trans, and a pretty restrained interior (minus the color), this Beetle walks the line between custom and Wolfsburg really well. Expect it to sell for $30,000-$45,000.

1973 Porsche 911 Carrerra RS 2.7 Lightweight

911-lightweight

Lightweight. Is there any sweeter word in sports car design? In English, Italian, or in any language it promises so many performance improvements that other words just can’t keep up. And the marriage of air-cooled Porsche to “lightweight,” along with its promises of speed, promises another thing: money. And lots of it. Nearly $1,000,000 of it according to the experts.

1959 Volkswagen Deluxe 23-Window Bus

23window

Okay, sometimes it is about how many windows you got. This near-perfect restoration is only 200 miles old. Before that, it had spent its life in the woods of Oregon before going in for a full-rotisserie resto. Now it still has a 40 hp engine, still has drums all around, and a period-correct Mohair headliner. Comes with a certificate of authenticity from VW and 400 pictures of the build. Estimates range from $165,000 to $180,000.

2000 Lamborghini Diablo GTR

diablo-gtr

With 590 hp coming from a 6.0-liter naturally aspirated V12 (the most powerful motor Lamborghini had ever produced to that point) the Diablo GTR is capable of hitting 210 mph. One of only 30, these cars were designed to be raced and so had weight stripped off, rigidity added, and handling improved. This one was raced by Reiter Engineering in the 2002 Supertrophy series (now Supertrofeo). Then in 2013, it went in for a full restoration. Every single part was either replaced or reconditioned and now it’s yours for an estimated $580,000 to $780,000.

1971 Porsche 914/6 Targa

9146

Long the unwanted step-child of the Porsche fleet, the 914 was the result of an unholy union (which couldn’t really be unholy given, you know, history, but whatever Porsche people are weird) between Porsche and Volkswagen. A mid-engine, rear wheel drive sports car, it should have been a hit, but people complained about the small, VW flat four providing the power. This one comes with two extra cylinders bumping the power up to a neck-straining 108 hp. People are finally catching onto the appeal of these cars so values are on the rise. Unfortunately, there is no professional estimate on this car, but it will doubtless go for something that purists will call ridiculous, and will doubtless sell again for even more after that.

2015 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse

grande-vitesse

The Grand Sport Vitesse was one of the Veyron’s last outings and featured the most ridiculous version of the already ridiculous W16 engine, making 1,200 hp. Routing power to all four wheels, that was good for a 0-60 time of 2.4 seconds and a top speed of 254 mph. And as a targa-topped, mid-engine car finished in black and orange and the result of a union between VW and a historically important race car manufacturer, this is basically the same thing as the above 914/6, but with more of everything. Estimates on this range from $2,700,000 to $3,000,000.

The post The 10 Coolest VW Products on Sale at Monterey appeared first on VWVortex.



from VWVortex http://ift.tt/2vMEcxg
via IFTTT

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Watch: The Story of the Ads that Made VW Big in America

The ads for the original Beetle are almost as famous and well-loved as the Beetle itself. Looking back now it’s easy to forget, though, just how easily things could have wrong. A new short from Dial M Films tracks the history of those early Volkswagen ads that sold America on the people’s car. The story, of course, begins with the visionary agency that made the ads: Doyle Dane Bernach (DDB). As a popular agency for Jewish products, no agency was more aware of the implications of Volkswagen, and no one, it seems, was more skeptical of the brand than DDB. “Remember Those Great Volkswagen Ads?” from Dial M Films on Vimeo . William Bernbach, though, was adament that the firm take the client, probably as a way of attracting other lucrative automotive clients. Saddled with a client that he didn’t want, art director Helmut Krone says in the film that he originally came up with ads that were all wrong. Krone tried to do what other manufacturers did and was intent on selling the Beetle ...

Watch: The Stig Drives (nearly) Seven Generations of Golf GTI

With Volkswagen announcing “major” updates to the Golf, it seems an appropriate time to look back on what we’ve had so far. And who better to guide us through the rich history of the most popular European car ever made than Ben Collins, the former Stig? Some say he’s never met a GTI he doesn’t love, and that he can’t grow any of his own facial hair. All we know is … Ben Collins is actually a pretty solid presenter. Working his way through seven generations of the GTI (skipping over the Mk6) Collins tells us a little bit about each one and matches each mark to its corresponding facial hair craze. The Mk1 GTI for instance, is light and quick, but can lose traction under hard acceleration (in heavy rain). Despite that, Collins calls the Mk1 a “pure gem.” The Mk4, meanwhile, is a powerful return to form after the perhaps too sensible Mk3. Collins ends in the only way he could, with the Mk7, which accelerates faster than a Lamborghini Countach and is all kinds of wonderful. Watch, ...

Volkswagen Golf GTE Wins Top Honor at the 2015 Business Techies Awards

Golf GTE wins Green category in the 2015 BusinessCar Fleet Technology awards Judges praised the Golf GTE for its performance, ease of use and economy Golf GTE launched earlier this year with plug-in hybrid technology – priced from £33,755 204 PS performance combined with CO 2  emissions of just 39 g/km Volkswagen has added to its growing list of 2015 automotive industry accolades by winning the Green category in the annual BusinessCar Fleet Technology Awards – the Techies. The prestigious title was awarded to Volkswagen for the Golf GTE, an innovative plug-in hybrid that combines sporty dynamics with exceptional fuel economy and low CO 2  emissions. Now in their seventh year, the Techies are judged by both BusinessCar’s experienced editorial panel with help from TRL’s technology expert. The industry’s only technology-specific awards, the BusinessCar Techies reward the use of technology to make business car fleet operations easier, cheaper, cleaner, safer and more straig...